Dr. Samyami Chowdhury is an Assistant Professor for the Department of Pediatrics at McMaster University, a General Paediatrician and Paediatric Neurologist from the UK. She went to Warwick Medical School and then pursued early training in Neurosurgery, before joining The London School of Paediatrics for General Paediatrics. It was at The University of Oxford and Great Ormond Street Hospital where she trained in Paediatric Neurology training. Dr. Chowdhury has extensive Neurovascular experience having completed a Stroke fellowship at SickKids. She became the inaugural American Heart Association Pediatric Hemorrhagic Stroke Fellow thereafter, cross appointed to the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), establishing the worlds first Pediatric Hemorrhagic Stroke Registry with the IPSS (International Pediatric Stroke Society).
Over the last 4 years, she has been an integral part of the SickKids Neurovascular Program; a collaborative effort with neurosurgery and neurointervention. Her clinical interests are brain AVMs and aneurysms, CSVT, ischemic stroke and stenting in IIH. She has multiple publications including: the association between thrombectomy and functional outcomes in pediatrics published in JAMA, neurocognitive outcomes following hemorrhagic stroke, a chapter in Swaimans Textbook of Pediatric Neurology on CSVT and her latest work on “Ethical considerations in Neurointervention” in the journal Stroke. She has just completed a study reviewing the SickKids hyperacute stroke pathway.
In this week's core session of Grand Rounds, she provides an update on current management of Paediatric Neurovascular conditions (arterial ischemic and hemorrhagic Stroke and cerebral sinus venous thrombosis) overview of recent advancements and ethical considerations of Neuroendovascular treatments in children.